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CHICAGO INFERNO Firemen snooi mrcom of waier over cnarrca trolley into a Blazing Duiming, one
; of the seven destroyed or damaged after the trolley crashed Into a truck-trailer loaded with gasoline
! In Chicago. The explosion and fire killed 33 persons and Injured 50 others. Ten of the Injured are
near death.
Japanese Singer,
Born in America,
Yearns lo Return
Tokyo U R) An American
?lrl of Japanese parentage has
oregone a stage career here,
' which is the envy of thousands
of Nipponese bobby soxers, to re
turn to the United States.
Peggy Noriko Matsuda, born in
Salt Lake City and the only Nisei
?irl ever to become a member of
he famed Takarazuka girls'
opera show, said she is planning
a stage career in America.
"My present ability is too poor
to appear immediately on the
American stage but I am willing
to work hard and I am going to
begin at the beginning, Peggy
aid.
Peggy arrived In Japan eight
years ago with her mother and
aister, Rose, after her father,
Tanesuke Matsuda. a merchant,
died In Salt Lake City. After at
tending elementary and high
schools in Ashiya, near Kobe,
ihe enrolled in April, 184(1, in
the Takarazuka Girls' Opera
school.
The opera achool Is unique. It
trains its students to sing, dance
and to act and puts on an oper
etta show. Its repertory Includes
Japanese and Shakespearean dra
mas and many others featuring
"make believe" kingdoms almost
always based on romance be
tween a beautiful princess and a
prince charming.
The male parts are portrayed
by girls. The foreigner finds it
difficult to understand but Jap
anese girl teen-agers are almost
fanatic in their admiration of the
how's members.
Entrance requirements to the
school arc strict but Peggy made
the grade and she made her de
but in April, 1047. under the
atage name of Midori Wakasa.
Power to Evans Creek,
Wmer, To Be Cut;
'Phone Service Slated
Electric power service to the
Evani Creek area above Rogue
T;ivi.-, including the Wimer area,
wii1 r"S interrupted from 9 a.m.
to ) 2 nooii and from 1 to 4 p.m.
Sumiay, jiie 4, it was announc
ed today bv the California Ore
gon Power company.
The interruption will be for
the purpose of changing power
line wires to permit the con
struction of telephone lines into
the Wimer area.
Wimer was served by tele
phones prior to 1911). But the
heavy snow that year carried
them out and they have never
been restored. A total of 14
Inches of snow was on the ground
In Meriford that winter, and the
temperature dropped to four de
grees below zero.
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All 46 states are represented
in the 19th Infantry Regiment
now in Japan, the range being
from one Nevadan to nearly 200
New Yorkers.
Friday. Juno 2. I9S0
Amphibious training of U. S.
armed forces army, navy and
air forces began in Japan on
May 15 and will continue
through August 15.
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Hollywood, June 2 (U.R)
Looks like Hollywood's not kid
ding about cutting cornors. Now
they've got Red
skelton play
ing three roles
in one movie.
"With one
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T7"i ' ing it up with
P:4J the guild next
week," quips
t h e irrepressi
ble Red.
If you like
Skelton and
there aren't
very many who
don't you'll like "Watch the
Birdie" three times as much. He
plays himself, his pop, and his
grandpa.
And at last reports, Red was
so mad at those other two char
acters he wasn't speaking to eith
er of 'em. Says they both got bet
ter lines than he has.
MGM's going along with the
gag. They've got three dressing
rooms fixed up on the set. If
Red's playing pop he uses pop's;
when he's grandpa he uses
gramp's. And when he's himself
he goes into his own and locks
the door so "those other guys"
can't snoop on how he's gonna
play the next scene.
"I've got it all figured out,"
Skelton grins. "I'm gonna over
play pop and upstage grain pa so
that bum in the middle can't
steal a scene."
Switches Scripts
The script department pro
duces three scripts every morn
ing and Red laboriously switches
over when he changes his make
up.
"I'm working on the casting
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boys now," he says." I want
three dames, too."
Director Jack Donohue, Skel
ton's personal pal, drew the
back-breaking job of handling
three Skelton.s
"One was bad enough before,"
he groaned. "Now God alone
knows what's gonna happen.
"I get up with dread every
morning. It's taking 20 years off
my life. The worst part is early
in the morning just before we
unchain him."
As far as Donohue can remem
ber, this is the first time any
body ever played three different
roles in one movie. It's also the
first time any studio tried to
split the screen three ways.
Old Stuff
Double screens are old stuff
now, but in "Watch the Birdie"
Red cuts up in the same scene
with pop and grandpa. Grandpa
even smokes a long, black cigar
(which made Red sick) and it
took all the studio's wizardy to
keep the smoke from getting out
of hand.
Donohue's biggest problem is
shushing up the crew while
Red's cavorting in front of the
camera. They practically double
up and bust their seams trying
to keep from laughing out loud.
"Don't encourage him," Dono
hue yells. "He'll wanta produce
the next one!"
Nobody ever knows what
Skelton's gonna do next. Dono
hue just sends him into a scene,
mutters: "God help us all." and
says: "If he manages to say it in
English, write it down and we'll
use it.'"
Red's even working on a sur
prise ending.
1 m gonna play my own motn- j
he hollers. "With laisies:
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Nude Africans Use
Panls for Church
Services, Prayer
Cairo (U.R) A naked Negro
stopped outside a Christian
church, unwrapped a parcel, put
on a pair of khaki shorts and en
tered to pray.
A while later he emerged, took
off the shorts, and took his seven
foot frame, clad only in skin and
muscle, towards the thick near
by forest.
The man was one of a tribe of
giants, the D i n k a s. inhabiting
Southern Sudan. With the Shil
luks and Nuweras. there are
about 2.000.000 Negroes living
in blissful ignorance in Southern
Sudan.
A Franciscan missionary, re
cently returned from that area,
described the missionary efforts,
both Catholic and Protestant, in
that jungle, animal-infested
southern part of the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan.
Missionary work has convert
ed thousands of these heathens
to Christianity, he said, although
there were still dense jungles
where no preacher has yet been
able to penetrate.
The Southern Sudan tribes in
clude some remarkable physical
specimens, with the Dinkas aver
aging a height of seven feet.
Most of these tribal Negroes
wander throughout their area
naked.
The missionary added that
many who attend church walk
up to the place of worship naked,
carrying their shorts under their
arm. They slip them on, and once
the service has ended, they take
them off. The women attend with
little but a few leaves dangling
from their waists.
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SWfEfSTAKtS WINNtt, OUNO CANYON
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Atomic Tests Dale
Ancient Remains,
Scientists Find
Chicago (U.R)-Atomic research
now is making it possible to
place relics of ancient civiliza
tions in their proper dates in
history more accurately than
ever before.
The University of Chicago In
stitute for Nuclear Studies will
undertake ten major projects to
date archeological finds from all
over t h e world by analyzing
samples of wood, charcoal or
plant life remains for radioactive
carbon 14.
' The institute already has start
ed studies of remains from an
cient Mexico.
The radioactive carbon created
when cosmic rays bombarded
particles of nitrogen at high al
titudes, originally was taken into
the bodies of the organisms as
carbon dioxide gas. When the or
ganisms died, the radiocarbon
began to decay.
Learn About Radiocarbon
Scientists have learned how
long it takes for radiocarbon to
break down and by finding out
how much is left in plant and
animal remains, they can learn
the approximate time the organ
ism lived.
The method will determine the
age within two centuries. Pre
viously archaeologists could only
guess at the age of ancient re
mains Scientists hope to learn more
about t lit- Tcpcxpan Man, whose
remains were found in a pro-historic
lake bed in Mexico in 1947.
Tepexpan man is believed now
to be at least 10.OT0 years old.
The scientists also will study
the pro-Aztec Zapotec civiliza
tion and the pyramids of the sun
and moon near Mexico City,
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